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[CaptainSlayAHo]

As much as I love FF9... I can not stand Quina

You aren't alone, quina was actively annoying lol

 

[SeraphJan]

Best: Every character from Final Fantasy Tactics

Worst: Every character from Final Fantasy XV

 

[Sgt.Asher]

Lighting is the worst, though most of the cast is awful.

Sabin is the best, just from suplexing a train.

I don't get the Vaan/Penelo as the worst. They are veesels for the player, to ask the questions you would.

 

[Fuz]

Best: Sephiroth


Worst: oh god, so damn many. Let's begin with the whole XIII cast.

 

[thesplitsubject]

Where’s the Umaro love???
Worst is Gau.

 

[GreetingsMortal]

The best written characters are Delita and Vivi free. Perfect arcs.

Worst probably Hope and… lots to choose from in XII. Like Vaan.

 

[jaysius]

Any of the males with big hair, they're all written like morons and their dialog is always drivel, typically they're the protagonists.

 

[Graciaus]

Agrias Oak. I have never not immediately put her in my party and never removed her in all my reruns.

 

[Kaachan]

The one who stood out to me the most is Balthier
He's a fantastic character, bold, witty and charismatic and the cornerstone of his party. Always got an answer for everything and goes out of his way to find solutions to any problems
I simply adore this humorous sky pirate

 

[Fugitive Sex]

The one who stood out to me the most is Balthier
He's a fantastic character, bold, witty and charismatic and the cornerstone of his party. Always got an answer for everything and goes out of his way to find solutions to any problems
I simply adore this humorous sky pirate

He's the best looking fella, too.

 

[Kaachan]

He's the best looking fella, too.

Oh yes, he is

 

[AV]

I'm on disc three of FF8 and Squall is probably one of the worst main characters in a video game ever.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Edgy Nomura

 

[Dirk Benedict]

As much as I love FF9... I can not stand Quina

And yet, you can solo Ozma with her/she/them/they/it/fuck

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

OP, did you just badmouth Seplhie and Eiko? Eiko’s sass is the best kind of sass, and FFIX is mostly too well written to have a bad dialogue from Eiko.

The exception, of course, being Amarant. There’s bad characters, there’s insufferable characters, and then there’s Amarant. Amarant is literally useless. Amarant doesn’t change the overall story of FF9 one single bit. He’s literal filler. Everything he does is filler, and of very poor quality too. Remove Amarant from FF9 snd you get exactly the same game, with a bit better flow in a couple of parts. While It’d be easy to pick almost any Nomura FF character for worst, I’ll pick Amarant. That’s how bad he is.

Best? Hard pick.
I guess Zidane is the best MC. Apart from his very brief breakdown - too brief and easily solved to really shake things up - he’s a tremendous guy, and that ending is perfection.
For support character, I really don’t know who can best Tifa. The lengths she’s willing to go to help everyone and save Cloud are incredible. And she has a literal slapfight on a ledge several hundred feet above the ground, ffs. You can forget all the details about FF7, and you’ll still remember that.

 

[Airbus Jr]

Tifa - she was engineered to appeal to virgin otaku/weeb losers. Girl with the body of a porn star but the personality of a sweet girl next door who has never known the touch of a man. And she does all the work of flirting with Cloud while he just acts like some socially retarded emo sad sack.

 

[itshutton]

Auron is the best, his backstory and character motivations are far more appealing than any other character. And unlike the cast of most Final Fantasies, it is actually congruent. Shout out to Yüna and Lulu as well, who I think are some of the stronger supporting cast.

Sephiroth second. He’s just so maniacal but so calm and measured simultaneously. What a bad ass.

Unfortunately, the worst list has a lot more characters on it. Zell, Steiner, Yuffie, all of the FFXV cast, Vaan the list goes on.

 

[Vognerful]

I don't feel like writing an essay on 4 characters but....

Worst: Quina (FF9). Ugly design, one dimension story and character, insanely annoying, awkward kit to use. Just everything about this character sucks with no positive points. There are other one dimensional characters in the series but they aren't on the same planet in terms of a grating personality. I don't know why this character exists plot wise.

Best: Garnet's (FF9) story arc is perfection. She defies the typical tropes of a princess character while still being lovable. Her entire storyline throughout the story is heartwarming and tear jerking and the conclusion is utterly satisfying.

I always thought having quina in your party is option and you can actually skip getting him/her.

 

[Vognerful]

The one who stood out to me the most is Balthier
He's a fantastic character, bold, witty and charismatic and the cornerstone of his party. Always got an answer for everything and goes out of his way to find solutions to any problems
I simply adore this humorous sky pirate

Square should have done a spinoff with him and viera. Like that dierge of Cerberus game.

 

[Vognerful]

I always thought Vaan mad penelo were wierd characters and didn't make sense that they did not feel like strong protagonists. Until I read later an interview with the devs later that they were not supposed to be. The Vaan and panelo were supposed to be observers of Bash and Ashe, who were the main protagonists as per the main plan. The devs however ran out of time to flesh out Vaan and panelo Characters and had to release them as such. With that in mind, Bash and Ashe are still great characters. I find the way Ashe revenge path shown in the story to be believable and close to human nature. Bash was a charismatic leader. But I would agree with saying that Baltheir takes the cake.

I don't know who is the worst character, but I can say that the cast of 13 was really bad (in addition for the game being bad as well). I also found no redeeming quality in Cloud and have no fucking idea why people love him or even why they loved FF7 (even the remake doesn't make him look good).

I don't remember much about 8 to comment about the characters.

 

[CaptainSlayAHo]

Don't have much to add, outside of that squall haters are clowns, RINOA was fucking atrocious and frankly, a cunt

 

[Crayon]

I'm rattled from that cloud porn a bit ago.

Lighting and Sephiroth banging. That's the best. Ship that.

Cait Sith and Hope. Never ship that.

 

[Zephir]

Anyone not saying Jack Garland is the best FF character is a liar

And she has a literal slapfight on a ledge several hundred feet above the ground, ffs. You can forget all the details about FF7, and you’ll still remember that.

Hope in the remake they'll make that a full 1vs1 boss fight... Or at least make the QTE way more cinematic

 

[Shifty]

Worst: Hope Estheim circa FFXIII-1. I checked out after he launched Snow off a ledge with the power of teen angst. Grown-up / non-brat Hope from the sequels is alright though.

Best: Hmm. Tempted to say Barret's portrayal in FF7R because I KNOW YOU CAN cracks me up without fail, but that's one scene.

Ah, I have it.

Look at that face, the man's basically a grump elemental. That's something I can relate to on a deep and personal level.

 

[Fermbiz]

 

[Nautilus]

Tidus is the best FF X charachter. OOGABOOGA was right about that all this time.

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Sephiroth. I'm sure he was cool in 1997 though.

 

[Jennings]

I've never played a Final Fantasy game, so I don't have a "worst", but I've seen enough FF r34 artwork to know Tifa is my favorite. Good god, she's built.

 

[RoboFu]

Best characters:

Worst characters:

 

[Valonquar]

The Mandervilles in FFXIV count as the best AND worst

 

[Shifty]

The Mandervilles in FFXIV count as the best AND worst

The definitive loving fatherly embrace. It brings a tear to the eye.

 

[brian0057]

They all suck.

EDIT: Takahashi Tetsuya, not Hironobu.
Also, Tetsuya > Sakaguchi.

 

[Happosai]

Best: Cloud...you get attached to someone with so many arcs

Worst: OogaBooga...He was in an early E3 demo from 2005 but the devs scrapped the character from the final cut

 

[Green_Eyes]

Beatrix from FFIX. Duh.

Get your bland Xenoblades ass outta here.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Your favorite Two are the worst

 

[Captain Toad]

Get your bland Xenoblades ass outta here.

That was an old post and a reference to the guy who made a thread saying he thought Beatrix was the best FF character ever, then admitted he wasn't sure because he hasn't played FFIX.

And what problem do you have with Xenoblade?

 

[AJUMP23]